Oil Painting On Canvas

(C) 2020 Dale DiMauro

Recently, I have been fortunate to try my hand at oil painting. It is not that oil painting is new to me as much as an opportunity to meet with a group of local artists and paint as a guest in one of their studios.

This picture demonstrates what you can do with a limited palette. I do like how the brush drags across the texture of the canvas. However, for me, painting with the palette knife is even more rewarding. Painting with a palette knife can give you a hard but irregular edge. If you go this route, for example, you can suggest the texture of bark or sun on a tree trunk.  

The advantage to watercolor is the easy clean-up and relatively harmless materials. I have been (re)learning how to clean-up in oil. It really is not that bad but I never was big on using paint thinner. Regardless, the smell of oil can be quite intoxicating.